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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Dan Gainor :: Townhall.com Columnist
Conservatives, let this be our Waterloo
by Dan Gainor
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It’s the same on the domestic front. Want to fix health care? Then MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman talks about “America’s biggest health care crisis” in her new show. Want support for another outlandish stimulus bill to fend off the “economic crisis?” Then the networks promote pro-stimulus voices by a factor of more than 2-to-1. In all, the Post had more than 1,000 different Obama “crisis” stories since he took office just six months ago.

It’s part of the mainstream media campaign to keep Obama strong and help the Democrats give away enough spoils to secure permanent power. They are leading the charge against a largely leaderless conservative movement and hoping to turn our defeat into a rout. The theory is activists and voters will turn away and give up without direction.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Napoleon famously said, every soldier carries a marshal’s baton in his pack. In other words, if the movement needs leaders, leaders will emerge.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are emboldened. They run the House and now have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate thanks to the addition of Sen. Al Franken (D-Looney Tunes) and Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Turncoat).

The Republicans and conservative Democrats need to be just as bold. One major victory and Obama’s momentum runs out of gas. Stop government takeover of healthcare, as conservatives did with Clinton, and the whole uber-left campaign grinds to a halt. With no bogus health reform, the even more bogus cap-and-trade bill could fail. If they fail, conservatives could muster support to stop a sell-out on immigration.

To win, conservatives have to be willing to fight and to learn a little history.

Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture. His column appears each week on The Fox Forum and he can be seen each Thursday on Foxnews.com’s “Strategy Room.”

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Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow and director of the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute.
 
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Doug Rich
They've got a plan. Joel the Oppressor has posted that after his gang invades Washington, they will set up military tribunals where all federal employees will be tried for treason, then executed (he kind of waffled between hanging and firing squads). Our Joel is a Constitutional scholar (the reason he wants to kill the feds is that they do all kinds of things not consistent with Joel's reading of the Constitution). Joel's intention, on the other hand, honors the Constitution.

Haven't seen Joel around here for a few days; I wonder if he's been hospitalized.

To annfan
By your logic, the New York Times would increase its circulation if it published editorials questioning whether Obama is really a US citizen and announcing that he is training a Black Militant Thug Corps to invade American homes and confiscate guns.
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